Marilia Mendonca: A month after the accident, the police still haven’t heard from Simeg | Minas Gerais
5 min readExactly one month After the plane crash Singer Marilia Mendonca killed, the civil police are continuing investigations to investigate the causes of the accident, but the Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (Cemig) said so not heard yet.
The accident occurred on November 5, in Karatinga, in the Rio Doce Valley region of Minas Gerais. pilot Geraldo Medeiros; co-pilot Tarciso Viana; Producer Henrique Ribeiro; and adviser to the uncle and singer Abysele Silveira Dias Filho, died too.
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one of Inquiry lines From the civil police is exactly the probability that the plane crashed after hitting Cemig Distribution Tower Lines.
in a Press conference on 25, delegate Evan Lopez Sells said that the pilot It was only a minute from landing All victims tested negative for alcohol or pre-existing illnesses.
The pilot who landed 20 minutes after the accident said the crew reported no problem
Thus, according to him, the civil police are working with two lines of investigation to explain the crash:
- The hypothesis that Tower distribution lines from Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (Cemig) would cause an accident)See simulation below)
- The possibility of failure of the engine on which it depends Cenipa تحقيق investigationAviation Accident Prevention and Investigation Center.
“We’ve moved ahead with this hearing. We haven’t ruled out any possibility. But there are strong indications that transmission lines would have been the cause of the accident,” sales representative Evan Lopez Sells said that day.
Simulation shows what it was like to have an accident of a plane carrying Marilia Mendonca
NS g 1 He reached out to the Civil Police last Friday afternoon to see if there was an update on the investigations and to see who had been heard so far, but the only answer was that “the investigation is underway and more information will be passed on after the police investigation is completed.”
Cemig already said,No company representative was called to testify“.
Cemig also sent the following note:
“Cemig explains that the distribution line hit by the aircraft with the prefix PT-ONJ, in the tragic accident of 11/05, is outside the protection zone at Karatinga Airport, in accordance with a specific decree issued by the Airspace Control Administration (DECEA), of the Air Navigation Command. Brazilian (shown in the already released image by Cemig).
The photo sent by Cemig shows the position of the distribution line – Photo: Cemig / Reproduction
We reiterate that Cemig strictly follows Brazilian technical standards and applicable regulations in all of its projects.
Signals through the orange spheres are required for towers in specific situations, including being within an airport protection zone, which is not the case for a tower whose cable has been hit.
Cemig also reports that obstructions in the NOTAM do not indicate the distribution tower that hit the cable. One such drawback is another tower that belongs to Cemig and has orange signal fields, as it is located within the airport protection zone, in accordance with Brazilian technical standards and current regulations.
Investigations by the competent authorities will clarify the causes of the accident. The company once again regrets this tragic incident and sympathizes with the relatives and friends of the victims.”
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Aircraft engines are analyzed by the Center for Aviation Accident Investigation and Prevention (Cenipa).
According to a note from Cenipa, it was sent to g 1 Thursday (3) “An investigation into the accident involving the PT-ONJ registered aircraft that took place in Karatinga (MG) is underway. The objective of the investigations conducted by CENIPA is to prevent new accidents with similar characteristics.”
An accident with Marilia Mendonca – Photo: JN
The center added that “the completion of the investigations will take the shortest possible time, and this always depends on the complexity of each event, as well as on the necessity of discovering all the contributing factors.”
There are no other details About the progress of investigations by the agency.
The Federal Public Prosecution Office (MPF) in Minas Gerais is also monitoring the investigations About the crash. The agency began the procedure one day after the incident.
Wanted, said MPF g 1 That the “proceedings are confidential” and gave no other details.
Singer Marilia Mendonca’s guitar removed from a plane crash in Caratinga – Photo: Carlos Eduardo Alvim/TV Globo
pilot who Landed 20 minutes after the accident Singer Marilia Mendonca said she didn’t hear it on the radio Any problems coming from the plane she was on. This came in a statement to the Civil Police, which is investigating the causes of the accident.
He came from Vicosa, in Zona da Mata, bound for Obaburanga Airport in Karatinga. the pilots They even talked on the radio.
A video clip shows the moment police officers arrived at the scene with Marilia Mendonca
According to the representative of Evan Lopez Sells, the witness said that the singer’s plane He was in landing procedures.
“The pilot was already in the process of landing. The estimate is that the pilot who had an accident was about a minute and a minute and a half away from landing,” the delegate said.
The medical examiner, Talise Bettencourt de Barcelos, said in an interview on November 25 that singer Marilia Mendonca Died as a victim of multiple trauma.
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In addition to the actress, pilot Geraldo Medeiros; co-pilot Tarciso Viana; Producer Henrique Ribeiro; Marilia’s uncle and advisor, Abysele Silvera Dias Filho They were also victims of multiple traumas.
According to him, all the passengers on the plane died as a result of the plane crashing on the ground. This is it, The deaths only happened after everyone was on the ground.
He also said that to be on the safe side, materials were collected for additional testing “to identify other causes that could somehow contribute to death”: toxicology and alcohol tests, and histopathology (to see if victims had any pre-existing illnesses that could lead to death) . may contribute to death). All of these exams were negative..
The plane that crashed was a class A Beechcraft King Air C90a, a twin engine widely used in executive aviation around the world, from PEC Air Taxi Company.
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The aircraft manufactured in 1984 had a capacity of 6 passengers and was in normal airworthiness, that is, it was within the parameters to implement this type of transfer, and Authorized to fly business.
The Center for Aviation Accident Investigation and Prevention (Cenipa) reported that The plane does not have a black box.
Infographic showing the scene of the accident that killed Marilia Mendonca – Photo: Arte G1